re: There's no tired like end of the year tired, Teacher "E Card"

Oh, gd, I'm usually better about that.

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What in the actual frick are you talking about?

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I stand by it. In other positions, you have control over your situation. In public education, you have none. The only control you have is the ability to throw you hands up and walk out.

Not having control of your situation is a very stressful thing. Now there are obvious exceptions, particularly positions where you put your life on the line. But some could say teachers do that as well with some of the crazy arse people they deal with.

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What in the actual frick are you talking about?

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Something that you don't know one fricking thing about, obviously.

Look, I appreciate what teachers do. But give me a break.

More stressful than a doctor where one wrong cut and people die? All day every day.

Than a lawyer where If you mess up, people's lives could be ruined?

Corporate position where people are hounding you 24/7?

Being your own boss where if you mess up, you could lose everything in an instant and can't provide for your family?

Police? Fire?

Get over yourselves, teachers....

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In other positions, you have control over your situation. In public education, you have none

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Umm...in pretty much every profession I can imagine you have control over yourself and your duties, but you are still interacting with either the public, shareholders, your customers, other businesses, etc. You act like every job besides teaching consists of "Ok I'll go to work today, accomplish tasks A and B, then I'm done!"

Pretty much every job out there has elements that affect you directly that are beyond your control. With teaching, the biggest element of "non-control" you have is how your students react. What are some worst case scenarios? They disobey you. They don't turn in their homework. They get in a fight with another kid. Ok...what are some "non-control" scenarios in other jobs? You don't make a sale so now your paycheck just got cut in half. You lost out on a customer. A company wants to buy your company so you could be out of work in 2 months. Your division isn't generating enough revenue so you're forced to make cutbacks. The judge rules the other way now your client is in prison. You couldn't' help a patient quick enough and they coded on you. Etc etc etc.


I've never been one to say "teaching is easy! No one should complain!" I realize it has hard parts, and I said earlier in the thread it's a job I know for a fact I could not do. I'm not cut out for it. But don't glorify it to be some hard as shite, I have no control, if you only knew what is was like type of situation.

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I'm near the end of my first year. It's not a breeze like some of you think, but it's not hell either.

We work a lot more than most think. Sunday is a work day. If you're a first year teacher two hours of prep is required nightly or sometimes I'll do one hour at night and leave the house at 5:30 to do the rest at school. It's somewhat hectic.
120 fifteen year olds will get on your nerves. Your last one. daily. They're conniving little bastards for the most part...always trying to get out of class/come in your class, it never ends.

Trying to keep track of who hasn't taken what test and turned in assignments. Well, that's a joke with the absences I have.
I'm also doing summer school in June. So I've realistically got four weeks off. Most have nine. Three months off is inaccurate.
Administrative duties and paperwork...it's 30% of my job. If I could just teach that would be great.

Second year will be easier since I will re use most of the material that I created during the first.

All of that for 39k...I don't need more, but it would be justified. Also, the Masters pay scale is an absolute joke that makes me want to move.

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The horror.

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1) I never said any such thing.
2) Have you tried it?

I have worked a pipeline in Ohio, compressor stations and refineries in North Dakota, and at least a half dozen refineries and chemical plants in LA and MS. I can compare experiences. Teaching at a good school might be a breeze...a bad school isn't even close to that.

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My family has 7 teachers in it including my wife who was a teacher for 15 years before she moved to administration. It has it's troubles just like every other real job in the world. The difference it you don't hear anyone else bitching about it as much as teachers do. Well, nurses give them a run for their money but that's for another day.

Like the sage on the first page said...women bitch
I'm sure that's why nurses are second on your list.

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I taught in New Orleans, inner city, right between BW Cooper projects and the Melpomene projects for many years.

I celebrated the end of the year because I got thru another year without actually having a student "bust a cap in yo arse" as one threatened to do on occasion.

I celebrated the fact that my car was broken into only 3 times. I had to buy 3 new windshields, yayy! I was reprimanded for not finding "a better place to park, lol! We knew who broke in my car but nothing was done to the culprit. I was told I should pay for it since I had more money than the kids parents did.

I celebrated that I had not been assaulted like 5 other teachers at my schools ( one got pushed down a flight of concrete stairs, another had her arm crushed in a door by her students).

Our school had a 0% suspension rate. Principal would never suspend anyone because it would affect our "school score" (schools got ratings based on certain criteria like standardized tests, attendance, student behavior, etc). Students knew they would not be suspended and did as they pleased.

Our school boards response to the rampant violence was to send a lawyer to tell us if we so much as touched a student to defend ourselves that we would be arrested.

We were told if we were attacked by students that we should raise our hands in the air to show we were not touching the students who were attacking us.

NO, I was not one of those teachers who posted those ecards or other end of the year stuff.

It is becoming increasingly common for teachers to be attacked, beaten, or knocked out by students or their parents. Some have even been raped and killed like Colleen Ritzer.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my students and put up with chit because I cared about them. Some of them were such wonderful kids. There was one budding young psychopath I knew would grow up to kill someone one day (and he did murder someone when he was a teen).

Not all teachers have it that bad. I did teach for a while at a private school and it was wonderful. ( I had to quit because I needed emergency major surgery and had a long recovery time).

No offense to anyone here who is annoyed by teachers and the end of the year bs. Just wanted to put in what my experience as a teacher was

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That's pretty shitty but you knew it was going to be like that when you signed up to teach at a shitty school in NOLA. That's the way it goes. At least once a week I have to stand in front of a panel and a judge to give my opinion as to why I think a child should or shouldn't be left in their parent's care. I can't tell you how many times over the last 20 years I walked out the courthouse or office to a family that wanted to put a bullet in my head. I knew it could be like that when I signed the contract.

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